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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the men decide they must bathe during their trip?
(a) In the river.
(b) In the boat's bathtub.
(c) At a private bathroom on land somewhere.
(d) In a pond.

2. How does J. describe Reading?
(a) As a Monet painting.
(b) As heaven on earth.
(c) As unattractive.
(d) As a scene from Norman Rockwell.

3. What kind of experience does Harris have that the others do not?
(a) Fixing boats with leaks.
(b) Making navigational maps.
(c) Rowing at sea.
(d) Navigating by the stars.

4. What natural wonder has a major impact on J. near picnic point?
(a) A meteor shower.
(b) The stars and darkness of night.
(c) The sounds of wolves.
(d) The extreme cold.

5. What do the men ask of the friends they run into in Reading?
(a) For directions.
(b) For a drink.
(c) For a tow.
(d) For some money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where near Sonning do the men decide to camp?

2. Who ends up taking the first rowing shift after Reading?

3. Whose shirt does J. accidentally fling into the river?

4. What kind of boat does J. remember renting with some friends on a windy day?

5. What does J. consider Marlow to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. What ends up happening to the men's canned pineapple?

2. How does J. end up being the first one to take a bath in the river?

3. How does the cat react when Montmorency tries to attack it?

4. What does George decide to do once he realizes he cannot go back to sleep the night his watch stops working?

5. What does Harris claim happens to him while George and J. are at Henley?

6. What happens that lets George know that everyone is lying about who caught the fish that is mounted on the wall in the pub?

7. What does J. claim one has to do to get a tea kettle to boil?

8. What change does J. notice about the group after they eat a large supper near Picnic Point?

9. What does J.'s friend miscalculate with the punt when they are boating together?

10. What ends up happening at the inns while George and J. are looking for somewhere to sleep in Datchet?

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